The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war ...

Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the PACE side-event “For a Permanent Platform on Interreligious and ...

The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human ...

Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This day is ...

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the ...

Human rights affirm our shared humanity and underscore our equal worth. Yet history repeatedly shows us that these rights are neither automatic nor permanent. They must be continuously upheld ...

The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust holds profound significance as it serves to ...

It's the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp where more than a million Jews, Poles and ...